The verdict is in on the relationship between sleep and weight: Research indicates a connection between how much people sleep and how much they weigh. In general, people who don’t get enough sleep tend to weigh more than people who do ...

Your metabolism matters. And that’s because your metabolism — the rate at which your body converts fuel (food) to energy and burns calories — determines in large part whether and how easily you gain or lose weight, as well as being a...

Have you heard of leaky gut syndrome? In some medical circles, it’s held that this “syndrome” isn’t really a diagnosis, but rather an indication that a diagnosis needs to be made. But that kind of thinking is beginning to change, even ...

Are you sitting too long? The average adult spends about 50% to 70% of every day sitting, and all that sitting has some serious health consequences. We sit at the kitchen table to eat breakfast, we sit in our cars on the way to work, som...

Stress affects everyone and is a normal, natural response to distressing life experiences and events. Stress can happen as a one-time occurrence or can continue for days, weeks, or months, in some cases. Stress isn’t always bad, and ca...

Weight loss is an important goal for many people, but the language we use to discuss body weight is often flawed. Weight loss isn’t really the goal. What people truly want is to lose body fat – while at the same time maintaining or i...

If you’re aiming for weight loss, all you have to do is eat less and exercise more, right? Maybe not. For many people who have difficulty losing weight and keeping it off, it’s much more than just a simple numerical equation involving ca...

If you’re having trouble losing weight, it could be your hormones. Successful weight loss often requires more than eating a healthy diet and working out. For many people, lasting weight loss must start with a close look at any hormone ...

Increasingly today, the focus is shifting to recognizing chronic inflammation as a factor in many common diseases, including hard-to-treat degenerative diseases and stubborn weight gain. The good news is, because diet and lifestyle are o...

Chiropractic care has come a long way since it was founded in 1895 by Daniel David Palmer, who maintained that all diseases were caused by dislocated bones. For a long time, though, regular MDs took a dim view of chiropractic care and ch...